Selim M. Shahriar was born in Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he was a principal research scientist
at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.
Research
Interests
The development of nanotechnologies at the atomic level, with
applications to quantum memory, quantum computing, quantum communication, atom-interferometric
nanolithography, and atomic gyroscopes; The development and application of high
density optical data storage, data buffers using slow light, super-parallel database
search engines, and high-efficiency optical phase conjugation.